Just poor code quality. Lack of error checking. And as I said elsewhere, you really really don't want MBX (mbox) mailboxes on the server, I predict that you'll find that you lose e-mail. Because mbox uses a single file for multiple messages, locking is per-mailbox, which is a disaster for OS X Mail which multi-threads access to mail. It's also bad if you have heavy mail volume, as mail can't be delivered safely if you're updating your inbox.
I don't have any trouble with drafts, sent messages or trash. As I recall, I had to create a symlink for the trash, but everything else shares fine between Thunderbird on Linux and Mail on the Mac.
This is actually a big issue. It's physically easier for me to sync my two phones manually, that is, to manually write down and type in contact details between my addressbook, my business and personal phones.
That's pretty shocking. I always assumed there was Windows software that would do the job as well as OS X, where I pair the phone with Bluetooth, run iSync, and all my contacts, calendar items and to-do lists sync right over without any work.
Lotus Notes supports IMAP, POP3, SMTP, HTTP, S/MIME, LDAP, vCalendar, vCard. And that's just for your mail-related functionality. There's really no proprietary lock-in.
Of course, some IT departments choose to disable all the open standards functionality, but that's not the product's fault.
Sony Ericsson phones support push mail (RIM-style) with standard POP3/IMAP servers. I'm sure Nokia do too. The specs are open. I imagine someone's implemented the necessary SMS-sending script for Dovecot/Procmail by now.
The corollary of this is that if you have a mortgage (with an interest rate around 7.5%), it makes more sense to divert any spare money you may have into paying it off early than to set up a savings account (probably earning less than 5%).
Not in the USA, where you can deduct your mortage interest from your income when computing your taxes.
The funny thing is, I don't want it. Credit is really just newspeak for "debt". The only debt I ever want to have, and I don't really want it very much, is a mortgage.
I agree with you. However, you won't get a good deal on a mortgage unless you have a solid credit history, and the easiest way to get a solid credit history is to get a credit card, use it, and pay it off every month.
IMAP problems with Mail are probably due to the shortcomings of your server. Mail opens 4-5 separate threads at once. If your IMAP server uses mbox format for storage, this can cause major problems--for example, you might read a message and delete it, causing thread #1 to start to remove data from the middle of an mbox, while thread #2 is still reading data from the end of the same mbox.
Thunderbird avoids the problem by being single threaded.
I avoid the problem by using an IMAP server that doesn't suck, and keeping the mail in Maildir format.
I'm all for violence in video games as long as the violence doesn't portray actual acts.
So sanitized violence in which you kill thousands or millions of people in the abstract is OK, but realistic killing of a single person is not? Do you have a logical argument for that?
Well, whether CMSs are difficult to build or not, last time I checked there weren't any mature ones for Rails. Maybe those web sites decided that reinventing the CMS wheel in Rails wasn't worth it, because developing a CMS wasn't one of their goals.
I can see a paper catalog of Ruby add-on libraries being useful, simply because the Ruby web sites are so completely littered with dead projects, projects that have never released code, and so on, not to mention rampant wheel-reinvention.
Yup. Blockbuster had to be dragged kicking and screaming into DVD support, and all that did was allow Netflix to capture a big chunk of the DVD rental market.
Yes, everyone listens to MPEG, either MPEG-1 layer 3 or MPEG-4. WMA was killed because the iPod owned the mobile player market and doesn't support WMA, but does support MP3 and MP4.
Well, as a TiVo owner, I disagree. I find it intensely irritating that I can't modify the open source software of my TiVo to enable me to program it remotely via SSH, for example.
trying to stamp out your freedom to do anything but
release free software(God forbid I create a closed, embedded system, even though I released the code to the wild).
Are you trolling? RMS isn't trying to stamp out your freedom to ship code you own as closed, embedded systems. He's just trying to stop you from releasing other people's code as closed, embedded systems, and only when they have explicitly stated they don't want you to be allowed to do so.
TrueType was developed as a joint effort between Apple and Microsoft, because of Adobe's refusal to open their font format to third parties. For a while, it offered better font rendering than Type 1, at least on the Mac.
However, Adobe subsequently opened up their formats, and Apple pretty much lost interest in improving TrueType further. They shipped QuickDraw GX (based on TrueType), but pretty much killed it immediately by refusing to license any of it back to Microsoft. It has been replaced with Apple Advanced Typography (AAT, the system on OS X), which supports PostScript as well as TrueType, just as OpenType does.
So Linspire can't ship any new FSF-owned code once GPL 3 is finalized. Hence forcing them to either fork the entire GNU toolchain, stick with obsolete versions, or fold up and die.
Yup. If you write the code to have good logging and good exception handling, you'll rarely (if ever) need a debugger. This is especially true if you're using a modern language with automatic memory management.
As for profilers, they should be used once you hit beta, if at all. And even then, chances are you're going to use them in a very superficial way, to find out which chunks of code are taking the most time so you can see which algorithms might need replacing. Very little code these days needs the kind of call-by-call optimization that profilers will give you.
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Just poor code quality. Lack of error checking. And as I said elsewhere, you really really don't want MBX (mbox) mailboxes on the server, I predict that you'll find that you lose e-mail. Because mbox uses a single file for multiple messages, locking is per-mailbox, which is a disaster for OS X Mail which multi-threads access to mail. It's also bad if you have heavy mail volume, as mail can't be delivered safely if you're updating your inbox.
I don't have any trouble with drafts, sent messages or trash. As I recall, I had to create a symlink for the trash, but everything else shares fine between Thunderbird on Linux and Mail on the Mac.
I'm using Dovecot. Courier stinks.
That's pretty shocking. I always assumed there was Windows software that would do the job as well as OS X, where I pair the phone with Bluetooth, run iSync, and all my contacts, calendar items and to-do lists sync right over without any work.
Lotus Notes supports IMAP, POP3, SMTP, HTTP, S/MIME, LDAP, vCalendar, vCard. And that's just for your mail-related functionality. There's really no proprietary lock-in.
Of course, some IT departments choose to disable all the open standards functionality, but that's not the product's fault.
Sony Ericsson phones support push mail (RIM-style) with standard POP3/IMAP servers. I'm sure Nokia do too. The specs are open. I imagine someone's implemented the necessary SMS-sending script for Dovecot/Procmail by now.
Not in the USA, where you can deduct your mortage interest from your income when computing your taxes.
I agree with you. However, you won't get a good deal on a mortgage unless you have a solid credit history, and the easiest way to get a solid credit history is to get a credit card, use it, and pay it off every month.
IMAP problems with Mail are probably due to the shortcomings of your server. Mail opens 4-5 separate threads at once. If your IMAP server uses mbox format for storage, this can cause major problems--for example, you might read a message and delete it, causing thread #1 to start to remove data from the middle of an mbox, while thread #2 is still reading data from the end of the same mbox.
Thunderbird avoids the problem by being single threaded.
I avoid the problem by using an IMAP server that doesn't suck, and keeping the mail in Maildir format.
So sanitized violence in which you kill thousands or millions of people in the abstract is OK, but realistic killing of a single person is not? Do you have a logical argument for that?
Because that was the clear stated intent behind the licensing terms the code was released under.
Well, whether CMSs are difficult to build or not, last time I checked there weren't any mature ones for Rails. Maybe those web sites decided that reinventing the CMS wheel in Rails wasn't worth it, because developing a CMS wasn't one of their goals.
Ruby web sites run PHP in large part because of the lack of mature Ruby CMS software.
(That's why I switched to PHP for my web site.)
I can see a paper catalog of Ruby add-on libraries being useful, simply because the Ruby web sites are so completely littered with dead projects, projects that have never released code, and so on, not to mention rampant wheel-reinvention.
Yup. Blockbuster had to be dragged kicking and screaming into DVD support, and all that did was allow Netflix to capture a big chunk of the DVD rental market.
I don't know about this film, but The Big One was funded by the BBC. They probably don't care if his movies make a profit or not.
Yeah, what we really need is an article on the psychology of armchair psychologists.
Yes, everyone listens to MPEG, either MPEG-1 layer 3 or MPEG-4. WMA was killed because the iPod owned the mobile player market and doesn't support WMA, but does support MP3 and MP4.
Well, as a TiVo owner, I disagree. I find it intensely irritating that I can't modify the open source software of my TiVo to enable me to program it remotely via SSH, for example.
Are you trolling? RMS isn't trying to stamp out your freedom to ship code you own as closed, embedded systems. He's just trying to stop you from releasing other people's code as closed, embedded systems, and only when they have explicitly stated they don't want you to be allowed to do so.
TrueType was developed as a joint effort between Apple and Microsoft, because of Adobe's refusal to open their font format to third parties. For a while, it offered better font rendering than Type 1, at least on the Mac.
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However, Adobe subsequently opened up their formats, and Apple pretty much lost interest in improving TrueType further. They shipped QuickDraw GX (based on TrueType), but pretty much killed it immediately by refusing to license any of it back to Microsoft. It has been replaced with Apple Advanced Typography (AAT, the system on OS X), which supports PostScript as well as TrueType, just as OpenType does.
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So Linspire can't ship any new FSF-owned code once GPL 3 is finalized. Hence forcing them to either fork the entire GNU toolchain, stick with obsolete versions, or fold up and die.
Yup. If you write the code to have good logging and good exception handling, you'll rarely (if ever) need a debugger. This is especially true if you're using a modern language with automatic memory management.
As for profilers, they should be used once you hit beta, if at all. And even then, chances are you're going to use them in a very superficial way, to find out which chunks of code are taking the most time so you can see which algorithms might need replacing. Very little code these days needs the kind of call-by-call optimization that profilers will give you.
Use a web-feed-to-email service. There are plenty out there. Problem solved.
Your other two objections amount to "They're ignorant and don't want to learn anything new", which doesn't deserve a response.
I'm English. And I didn't say anything about copyright, so stop trying to change the subject.
I was responding to the claim that the church was a private organization. It clearly isn't.
There are plenty of phones and other mobile devices that have a full web browser. I use Google apps on my Nokia N800.